317384 - http links locations not the same as links

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 64488

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Anatoly Kochergin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

For example: "http:\\public.alawar.com\SeaBounty\SeaBounty_v0.8+_rus.zip".
I know, it's not 100% valid (backslashes instead of slashes), howewer it works in Firefox and IE.

The problem is: Composer changes link locations.

1. Links got de-capitalized
2. "http://" added

Rhetorical question: Can TB be smarter then a user?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Paste "http:\\public.alawar.com\SeaBounty\SeaBounty_v0.8+_rus.zip" in compose window
2. Save draft or send the mail
3. Open saved draft, see link location

Actual Results:  
http://\\public.alawar.com\seabounty\seabounty_v0.8+_rus.zip/

Expected Results:  
http:\\public.alawar.com\SeaBounty\SeaBounty_v0.8+_rus.zip

Tested in TB1.5RC1 and TB1.0.x

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

That doesn't work in firefox (tested under 1.5) as you claim. And why would anyone use backslashes for slashes in http urls? I'd say INVALID.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

A Backslash is invalid in an URl and must be escaped.
-> invalid

Comment 3

[Anatoly Kochergin]

(In reply to comment #1)
> That doesn't work in firefox (tested under 1.5) as you claim. And why would
> anyone use backslashes for slashes in http urls? I'd say INVALID.
> 

Have you tried? It works. Try to copy/paste URL in parantesses to browser. Tested in FF1.5RC3 and IE6.
The bug here is not about invalid URL but invalid TB behavior. Even if URL is invalid, TB should leave it invalid.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It doesn't work in ff, nor should it. If it actually works for you, then that is a bug:)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64488 ***